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The 2014 FIFA World Cup is All Dance Music Everything Right Now

We're still a few months before the 2014 FIFA World Cup begins (June 12 for all of you non-footy fans), and over the last few days we've been hit with a number of World Cup-affiliated bits that have ties to this thing of ours (you know, dance music).

The first was this Fatboy Slim Presents Bem Brasil compilation that Fatboy Slim is sorting out for Astralwerks, which is due out on June 3. This actually combines two of Fatboy Slim's loves: football (if you recall, during the 2002 World Cup, Fatboy Slim played shows in the cities in Japan and South Korea that hosted Cup games, so the traveling English fans could have somewhere to party), and Brazil, the place where Fatboy is actually the most famous (yes that includes the UK).

Bem Brasil isn't there to spread love to footy, but to hype up the host city of the 2014 World Cup, Brazil. Fatboy Slim has acquired tracks from a serious host of producers, including Eats Everything, DJ Fresh, Claude VonStroke, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, and Gregor Salto, who contributed this track "Samba Do Mundo":